Clyde & Co

Occupational disease unit.

Head of the occupational disease unit in Birmingham.  She has been dealing with disease claims for the past 30 years including all types of occupational diseases including asbestos-related; VWF; deafness; RSI; asthma; stress. Val also led the Defence team in a Group Litigation Action arising in the waste water industry which resulted in injury from Hydrogen Sulphide exposure. More recently she was involved in claims arising in the green waste industry from exposure to aspergillus fumigatus spores.  Val has particular expertise dealing with private corporate clients and the associated corporate issues and indemnities where claims against old Companies are pursued.

Trained Edge & Ellison; qualified 1994; Edge & Ellison, Birmingham 1980-2002 FILE; associate disease work, Keoghs 2002-03; disease work BLM 2003 to date; partner 2005.

Birmingham Medical Legal Society; Institute of Occupational Safety & Health; FOIL.

Wolverhampton Polytechnic (FILE); Worcester Technical College (CPE); UCE, Birmingham (LSF).

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